Achieve.org has announced that Interactions, the 9th grade physical science curriculum developed through a collaboration between the MSU CREATE for STEM Institute, the Concord Consortium, and the Learning Partnership USA, has been awarded its first NGSS Design Badge. Interactions was recognized for the quality of its Unit 1, the example CREATE submitted for review. Using a special rubric designed to evaluate how well materials meet the Next Generation Science Standards, Achieve gave the Interactions unit its highest rating of "E: Example of high-quality NGSS design."